how it would go. i had a life in new york, likedded my life there, and i thought i would approach it as sort of a regular reporting gig where i would come in, report work, really hard for, like, a week, you know, get everything done i needed done, and then retreat back to new york for four weeks. it didn't work out that way. i mean, i really found myself spending more time here than in new york and really making a lot of great friends, and, really, i don't know. being inspired by, you know, things, like, you know, things like what you just mentioned, you know, the pete bara weekly thing, and just, you know, that -- there is a kind of interesting energy that -- it's hard to put your finger on, but it's, you know, des cooper, you probably know her, i quote here in the book. >> sure. >> she's not innative to detroit, moved here in the 1980s, a long time journalist, a smart thinker about detroit, and she talked about how detroit is the sort of place where, you know, people are doing things every day that you're not expecting to do anywhere else. i mean, people are coming home from wor
